Re: [Guix Website] A Search Page for Packages

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis:

>> Florian raised an important issue regarding the possibility of denial of
>> service.  Ideas on how to mitigate that, either in the Data Service, or
>> nginx at guix.gnu.org?
>
> On this point specifically, I've used the rate limiting functionality in
> NGinx before, and that's probably a low cost approach to guarding
> against this. It's not going to stop a DDOS, but might help avoid lots
> of requests from one IP address causing load issues.

Sounds good, we can take that route.

On berlin we’ll have to keep using nginx I guess (there’s too much
config in there), but perhaps Varnish is an option for the Data Service.

Ludo’.